Originally Posted By: Planobilly
A few songs on the last set...to damn old to stand up and play for four hours...lol

To begin with, I don't know all their originals and also not all the covers they play.I watch the bass player and listen when I am not sure. I try to play what I think the keyboard parts should be and rhythm guitar. I don't get out front unless ask too and I am dead sure I know what I am doing or we are playing one of my originals. It's their show and their band and I am just a guest. I have to limit my stuff to styles that fit the gig they are playing. Last night was loud hard rock commercial music, something I don't do a lot of to begin with.

I am good friends with the guys in the band. Sometimes I get to play with them when we can play most anything we like. The gig last night is sometimes like that...but not last night.

We sometimes try new stuff out but we have to make it work when you are in that commercial situation. They play around 180 gigs per year so there is not very much time to get together and rehearse anything.

I miss living in LA where I had many more musician friends and could play seven nights a week if I wanted too.

Cheers,

Billy


That's very cool. Yep, and the right way to do it.

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